Designing The Movies: VERTIGO - 65th Anniversary Screening!
Designing The Movies: VERTIGO - 65th Anniversary Screening!
Thu, Mar 16, 6:45 PM
The Revue Cinema • Toronto, ON
$15.18 - $18.37
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Designing The Movies: GRAND HOTEL - 90th Anniversary Screening!
A masterpiece of drama and Art Deco design, still magnificent at 90!
By Revue Cinema
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The Revue Cinema 400 Roncesvalles Ave Toronto, ON M6R 2M9 Canada
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About this event
A masterpiece of drama and Art Deco design, still magnificent at 90!
Greta Garbo utters the line that became her catchphrase in pre-Code masterpiece GRAND HOTEL, the first movie with an all-star Hollywood cast. Garbo is joined by Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and two Barrymores and every performance is a sublime in the story of criss-crossing fates among disparate guests at a ritzy Berlin hotel: it earned the Academy Award for Best Picture. The dramatic ensemble has since become the reference point for movies from Airport and The Poseidon Adventure to The Grand Budapest Hotel.
The movie’s stunning Art Deco hotel is also main character. It was meticulously imagined by Cedric Gibbons, top art director of MGM’s classic era, and his crowning achievement—which is saying something in a career that includes both The Wizard of Oz and the design of the Oscar statuette itself. (Gibbons was nominated for Best Production Design 39 times—and won a record 11 of them.) Presented with an introduction by series host Nathalie Atkinson.
ABOUT THE FILM
GRAND HOTEL
USA | 1932 | 112 minutes | PG
Directed by: Edmund Goulding
Starring: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, and Lionel Barrymore
Art Direction by Cedric Gibbons, Costumes by Adrian
About Designing the Movies
Created and hosted by culture writer and film critic Nathalie Atkinson, a columnist for Zoomer and The Globe and Mail, Designing the Movies makes elements of design (like art direction, costume, sets) the lens for analysis. Each screening is introduced with a slide show and an expert talk or special guest Q&A. Follow us on FB and Instagram.